Category archives: Audio

The second post of this comparison series is about metadata in MP3 files.
Metadata allows information such as the title, artist, comments, cover image and other information about the audio to be stored in the file itself.
MP3 files use ID3 tags and in the following I will compare common tags, image details and ID3 ...

After recording a podcast or speech audio, it is usually necessary to modify the recorded levels.
This post illustrates how to normalize the subjective loudness
and how to compress the dynamic range
(= difference between the loudest and softest sounds) of an audio file.

Loudness normalization is one of the most common misunderstandings in audio post ...

Many different audio file formats exist for storing recorded audio data on
a computer system. This post compares multiple file types and gives
suggestions on which formats and bitrates one should use, especially when producing
podcasts or other online audio.